Improvement in bottle-washers



W. HEREN-BERG.

BOTTLE-WASHER.

No.180,937. Patented Aug.8,1876.

WITNESSES:

N. PETERS. PHOTO-LJTHOGRAPHER, wAsNlNGTON, D c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM SCHERENBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-WASHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. l 80.937, dated August8, 1876; application tiled May 27, 1876.

To all whom it may concern f Beit known that I, WILLIAM SGHERENBERG, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Bottle-Washer, of which the following is a specificationFigure l is a top view of my improved machine. Fi g. 2 is a side view ofthe same,parts being broken away, and partly in section, to show theconstruction. Fig. 3 is a detail section taken through the line w x,Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is deail section, taken through the line y y,

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved machine, simplein construction, inexpensive in manufacture, convenient in use, andeffective in operation, washing the bottles very quickly andthoroughly.`

The invention consists in the frame, provided with the detachableholding-plate, and the plate and its pad or Stoppers, in combinationwith the shafts, ,the wheel and baud, the gear-wheels, and theconnecting-rod; or with an equivalent gearing to give a rotary and anoscillating motion to the frame that holds the bottles; in thecombination, with the trough or box, the funnels, the cords, and theweights, with the frame that holds the bottles; and in the combinationVof the basins and the cup with the platform, and the frame that holdsthe bottles, as hereinafter fully described.

A is the platform or table of the machine, to which are attached fourposts, B, connected at their upper ends by a plate or frame, C. D isaframe, in one side of which is secured a false bottom, E, having holesor recesses formedv in it to receive the bottoms of the bottles F. Thebottles F are secured in place by a board, G, having holes formed iu itto receive the necks of the said bottles, and which is secured in placeby cords g', or other suitable fastenings. The mouths of the bottles Fare closed by a pad, H, attached to a plate, I, which is secured in thetop of the frame D by cords t', or other suitable fastenings. Instead ofthe pad H, stoppers may be attached to the plate I, in such positionsasvto enter and close the mouths of the bottles F, when the said plate Iis secured iu place. To one end of the frame D is rigidly and detachablyattached the end of a short shaft, J, which revolves in bearings in apost, K, attached to the platform A. rIo the outer end of the shaft J isattached a bandwheel, L, around which passes a band, M, that also passesaround a shaft, N. The shaft N revolves in bearn gs in posts O, attachedto the platform A. To the other end ofthe shaft N is attached a largebevel-gear Wheel, P, which is provided with a crank-piu, p', by whichthe shaft N is revolved, to revolve the frame D and the bottlescontained in it.

The teeth of the gear-wheel P mesh into the small bevel-gear wheel Q,pivoted to a post attached to the platform A. To the wheel Q is attacheda crank-pin, q', to which is pivoted the end of a connecting-rod, It,the other end of which is pivoted to a rod, S, which slides in a bearingattached to a post, T, attached to the platform A. To the other end ofthc rod S is pivoted the end of the frame D. By this construction, byturning the crank- Wheel P the frame D will be revolved and at the sametime oscillated, so as to thoroughly agitate the bottles.

U is a shallow trough or box, which slides -up and down upon the postsB, and in its bottom are secured as many funnels, X, as there arebottles in the frame D. To the center of the box U are attached the endsof two cords, V, whick pass over pulleys or staples attached to theplate or frame, and to their ends are attached weights W, to balance thebox U.

In using the machine, the bottles F are placed in the frame D, and aresecured by the plate G. The trough U is then lowered, bring ing thefunnels X into the mouths of the bottles F. Water and shot, tacks, orother suitable substance, are poured into said bottles. The trough U isthen raised, and the plate I and its pad or Stoppers are secured inplace upon the frame D and bottles F. The wheel P is then turned, whichrevolves, and at the same timetshakes the frame D and bottles F, washingthe said bottles clean in a very short time. When the bottles aresuflcientlv washed, the plate I and pad or Stoppers Hare removed, andthe frame D is turned through a halfrevolution, which allows the waterand shot or tacks to ilow from the bottles F into the ybasin Y, securedto the platform A, and through a hole in the bottom of which the waterand shot or tacks ow into a small vessel or cup, z', placed in a largerbasin, Z, placed below the platform A. The shot or tacks are rcceivedand held in the cup z', ready to be used again, and the water Bows overthe edge of said cup into the basin Z, whence it may be allowed to owinto any suitable receiver. The bottles are then rinsed with cleanwater, in the same way as they were Washed. The frame D is then detachedfrom the machine and replaced with another lled with dirty bottles, eachframe being emptied of clean bottles and filled with dirty bottles whilethe bottles in another frame are being washed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The frame D, provided with the detachableholding-plate G, and the plate I and pad or Stoppers H, in combinationwith the shafts J S N, the wheel and band L M, the gearwheels P Q, andthe connecting-rod R, or equivalent gearing, to give a rotary andanoscillating motion to the frame D at the same time, substantially asherein shown and described.

2. The combination of the trough or box U, the funnels X, the cords V,and the weights W, with the frame D that holds the bottles,substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination of the basins Y Z, and the cup z', with the platformA, and the frame D that holds the bottles, substantially as herein shownand described.

WILLIAM SOHERENBERG.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, T. B. MosHER.

